Wild Boar Recipes

Page 1: Braised Wild Boar Belly With Crispy Yukon Gold Potatoes

CAPSULE REPORT: Why make another pork roast when you can create a truly special meal using wild boar meat, available from a specialty butcher or online from MarxFoods.com. The wild boar is the ancestor of today’s domestic pigs. You won’t find pink skin or a cute curly tail here, though. Wild boars have stuff, bristly fur, range in color from various shades of brown to dark gray and black, and they have sharp tusks. Wild boars are raised on farms in many countries, but true wild boar is trapped in the wild. The meat possesses a slightly sweet and nutty flavor from the pig’s diet of foraged nuts and other foods from the forest. The wildness of true wild boar gives the meat a deeper color, leaner texture, tighter grain and bolder taste than domesticated pork. Wild boar is available in belly, ground, rack, sausage, shoulder and tenderloin. Here, we present two sophisticated boar recipes, using belly and boneless shoulder, courtesy of MarxFoods.com, and a boar burger from Chicago’s Bull & Bear restaurant.

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